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February 15, 2007
Focus on the Family a bit blurry?
While researching the new HPV vaccine (the one that can immunize women against cervical cancer), I came across this document about talking to your children about the vaccine. It all seemed reasonable, until I reached the talking points you're supposed to share with kids. This one stuck out:
It’s clearly written in the Bible that God wants us to save all kinds of sex for marriage. This is so that you will be protected from diseases that are spread from one person to another through sexual contact and so that you can fully enjoy God’s plan for your life.
I'm no Biblical scholar, but I'm pretty sure the Bible is mum on the existence of viruses. The germ theory seems to have come along much later, around 1835.
So what gives? Are they playing fast and loose with the facts, or is there a lost sermon about antibiotics somewhere in there?
Posted by Greg Sidor at February 15, 2007 12:58 AM